These mylar angled shapes–that we’re calling a creek–is based on one of Murray’s childhood memories damning up his neighborhood creek [shout out to Roland Dickey + Joel Reeves!]. They will soon be backed by 3/4 plywood so it’s easy for a performer to walk on them.

…So we removed the “blocks” from the lava towers and let them just be the shapes around the furniture. Much better. And we think the final project will looks sorta like this–with a dinner table. Because, of course, the natural end to play time when we were young was when our moms called us to help set the table for dinner.

Hmm. So we have the lava towers created. They line up beautifully with the floating room. We’ve also finished off the face of the front tower, however, now that we’re looking through the camera, it just doesn’t work as well as we thought when we designed it. There is something missing–or possibly something too much. It seems heavy handed. Something needs a big change…

…we Like the furniture and the lava idea, but the “blocks” of the lava towers seem to be at odds with the “block” of the floating room…